Trump’s incoming administration is already began tempering expectations. Earlier this month, retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, Trump’s pick to serve as the special envoy to Ukraine and Russia, walked back his boss’s bombast. “Let’s set it at 100 days,” he said, moving the goal posts for ending the conflict.

President Trump is turning up the heat on Russian President Vladimir Putin in his first days in power, seeking to pressure Russia’s leader to come to the negotiating table for a deal to end the

Donald J. Trump’s promise to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine in 24 hours, “before I even become president,” proved to be untrue.